Mowondang Hall

Mowondang Hall is the house where Jang Hyeon-gwang (pen name Yeoheon, 1554–1637), a civil official and Neo-Confucian scholar of the mid-Joseon period, lived after the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598). The complex consists of Cheongcheondang Hall and Yeoheonmyo, the shrine dedicated to him. Jang Hyeon-gwang entered government service in 1576, the ninth year of King Seonjo, and rose through the post of jwarang (a junior official rank) to serve as Vice Minister of the Board of Works. When the Manchu invasion broke out in 1636, the fourteenth year of King Injo, he actively urged the raising of righteous armies and gathered provisions for them, but on hearing the following year that Joseon had surrendered to Qing, he withdrew into the mountains and spent the rest of his life there. According to the "Record of Mowondang" in the Yeoheonjip, the collected writings of Yeoheon, after his house burned down in the Japanese invasions and he had nowhere to live, his relatives, including Jang Gyeong-u, gathered and built Mowondang in 1606, the thirty-ninth year of King Seonjo. Cheongcheondang was built in 1607, the fortieth year of King Seonjo, by his son Jang Eung-il (pen name Cheongcheondang, 1599–1676) as a place to pursue learning and friendship with others, and the shrine was erected in 1650, the first year of King Hyojong.

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Where it is

Region

Gumi, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료